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Forging America - New Lands and High Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Forging America - New Lands and High Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation,
Forging America: New Lands and High Culture shows how the various
"new" portions of the country--the Northeastern wilderness, the
West, and later the South and Midwest--were assimilated into the
national and intellectual consciousness of the young nation.
Specifically, author David P. DeVenney examines the ways in which
the arts helped achieve this assimilation, primarily through music
and painting, but also through literature and architecture. The
search for "American-ness" in the arts, for what it meant to be an
American painter, composer, or writer, occupied artists for the
entire 19th century and for the first part of the 20th.
Intellectuals viewed America in the 1800s as a new Eden, a
primordial wilderness, and viewed themselves as chosen by God to
begin a new chapter in the development of the world. This Romantic
idea included exploring and taming the vast regions of the country
and making their beauties accessible to the nation's Eastern
population centers, filtering notions of the West through the arts
and arriving at an idyllic vision absent any signs of danger or
exoticism. DeVenney writes for the educated nonspecialist as well
as the scholar, making Forging America a fascinating and useful
tool for understanding a key way in which America became America.
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